Join the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment (CCFI) for a one-day conference at Imperial College London, where we will be presenting and discussing the latest innovations in financing, research and analytics to help the financial community meet the challenges and opportunities of climate change.
Featuring:
- Imperial College London cross faculty academics and climate finance industry specialists covering the breadth of expertise in scientific research that underpins the CCFI’s work.
- Keynote addresses from Prof Sir Jim Skea (Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and Prof Marcin Kacperczyck (Professor of Finance, Imperial College London)
- Insights and solutions in
- de-risking and insurance for investors
- carbon accounting
- nature and biodiversity investment
- adaptation financing and policies
- energy infrastructure financing and transition pathways
- frontier areas of climate finance research
- For climate-focused finance professionals from both the private and public sectors, central banks, commercial banks, asset owners, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds and policymakers.
This page will be updated regularly. Virtual participation is currently not available.
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This conference differentiates itself from other climate finance events by discussing the latest innovations in financing, research and analytics relevant to financial institutions to help address the challenges and opportunities brought by climate change, including how to utilise and translate academic science into applied insights and solutions. Topics will offer a unique focus on cutting-edge frontier research, highlighting new and developing areas of climate finance, relating to nature investment, carbon accounting, de-risking and insurance, adaptation finance and policies, and energy infrastructure transition pathways.
The CCFI is uniquely positioned at Imperial College London to draw upon the institution’s breadth of expertise in scientific research to support its work in climate finance. The conference will bring together academics with finance industry specialists to bring valuable insight. The agenda aims to draw an audience of climate-focused finance professionals from both the private and public sector, central banks, commercial banks, asset owners, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds and policymakers.
Agenda
8.30 – 9.00 Registration and morning coffee
9.00 – 9.20 Welcome and Introduction to the CCFI & Climate Finance at Imperial
9.20 – 09.50 Keynote: What the Latest Climate Science Is Telling Us - Prof Sir Jim Skea
9.50 – 10.45 Biodiversity Investing: Bringing Clarity to a Muddled Landscape
10.45 – 11.15 Networking break
11.15 – 12.00 Carbon Accounting and the Pursuit of Climate Targets
12.00 – 12.45 Where Next: the Challenges of Financing the Energy Transition
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Climate Finance Keynote: The Pricing of Transition Risk - Prof Marcin Kacperczyk
14.00 – 14.45 The Costs of Polluting and Decarbonising in a World with Carbon Pricing
14.45 – 15.30 Green Securities Design and role of financial instruments in decarbonisation
15.30 – 16.00 Networking break
16.00 – 16.45 De-Risking Climate Exposure: The Role of Insurance
16.45 – 17.30 From Ambition to Reality: How to Scale Up Adaptation & Resilience Finance
17.30 – 18.00 Unchartered: Exploring the Next Wave of Climate Finance
18.00 – 18.05 Closing remarks
18.05 – 19.30 Networking Reception